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Happy Anniversary!

April 30, 2007 - by ASTD Staff

I've been having some connection challenges the past few days, so I'm almost belated with this post but not quite - I've still got an hour until midnight here on the US Pacific Coast. Five years ago, today - April 29, 2002, Jay Cross made the first official p... More »

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Get to know Lucinda Roy

April 18, 2007 - by ASTD Staff

How many of you knew Lucinda Roy? (I didn't). How many of you know her now? Probably a lot more. Our educational institutions were already in a deep crisis and didn't need a mass killing to help sort things out. But in the midst of a senseless, heart-breaking an... More »

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Training as Tic Tacs or Warm Tea

April 18, 2007 - by ASTD Staff

How often have you been in a situation where the training was absolutely wrong for the participant? I don't mean wrong as in, person will never use these skills, or wrong as in, person should be out selling instead of being in a formal learning program, or wrong... More »

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A lecture format that a sim-person could love

April 16, 2007 - by ASTD Staff

I travel all over the world presenting research and ideas on simulations (typically to a larger group, before working more closely with a smaller group). But I am constantly stuck with the same conundrum - how do you capture the spirit of simulations while presentin... More »

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Are "inspirational stories" the crack cocaine of our industry?

April 12, 2007 - by ASTD Staff

I have an unpopular suggestion for rebooting the formal learning industries. Let's put a one-year ban on "inspirational stories." You know what I am talking about: these are the pithy, well rehearsed, well honed, fiction-presented-as-truth stories by "experts/gu... More »

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